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A combination of para ('beside/alongside') and kalein ('to call'), [1] the word first appears in the Bible in John 14:16. [2] René Kieffer further explains the development of the meaning of this term: The word parakletos is a verbal adjective, often used of one called to help in a lawcourt. In the Jewish tradition the word was transcribed with ...
On behalf of Israel as a whole and in reliance on the might of God the Judge, Jephthah challenges the Ammonites. Jephthah swears an oath: ". . . and whatever [footnote: Or whoever ] comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the L ORD 's, and I will offer it [footnote: Or him ] up for a ...
If the epistle was written by the Jude mentioned in the gospels, that would place it sometime in the early apostolic age of c. 50–70 before the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem; if the letter reflects "early catholicism" and the beginnings of an organized church, then a date of the last decade of the first century or the early second ...
In a letter dated September 2, 1692, Cotton Mather wrote to judge William Stoughton. [1] Among the notable things about this letter is the provenance: it seems to be the last important correspondence from Mather to surface in the modern era , with the holograph manuscript not arriving in the archives for scholars to view, and authenticate ...
The Epistle to the Laodiceans is a possible writing of Paul the Apostle, the original existence of which is inferred from an instruction in the Epistle to the Colossians that the congregation should send their letter to the believing community in Laodicea, and likewise obtain a copy of the letter "from Laodicea" (Greek: ἐκ Λαοδικείας, ek Laodikeas).
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Paul actually writes that it was perhaps God's purpose that Onesimus initially ran away for the purpose of becoming a Christian and then return as a fellow Christian. Paul calls him "his son" (v.10) whom he "begot while still in chains." The message to Philemon is to accept Onesimus back as the "son" of a "prisoner of Jesus Christ."
In 1986, Coretta Scott King prepared a 10-page letter urging Congress to reject Jeff Sessions' nomination to be a federal judge. The emotional words from the widow of civil rights leader Dr ...